Finding asbestos is the easy part. Knowing whether to remove it, encapsulate it, or safely manage it in place — and what each option costs over ten years — is where we earn our fee. Every survey includes practical, long-term management advice.
Every sample tested by an independent accredited laboratory (ISO 17025) — the legal gold standard.
All surveys carried out by BOHS P402-qualified professionals to HSG264 methodology.
Remove, encapsulate or manage in place — we cost out every compliant option for you.
Here's an industry secret: most asbestos found in UK buildings does not need to be removed. Asbestos in good condition, left undisturbed, is often safest — and cheapest — managed in place. Yet property owners are routinely pushed into expensive removals they never needed. We give you the honest picture.
Material-by-material risk scores and condition monitoring · Annual re-inspection schedule · Contractor information procedures · Emergency response guidance if materials are damaged · Budget forecasts for eventual removal at end-of-life · Training guidance for on-site staff.
All surveys follow HSG264, the HSE's survey guide, whether you need a Management Survey for day-to-day compliance or a Refurbishment & Demolition Survey before building works.
We establish the building's age, construction type and your reason for the survey — routine compliance, pre-purchase, or planned works. This determines which survey type you legally need (many clients are quoted for the wrong one elsewhere). You get a fixed quote with no hidden lab fees.
⚡ We respond to every enquiry within 2 hoursWe review building plans, construction dates, previous surveys and any known asbestos records. Pre-2000 buildings are treated as containing asbestos until proven otherwise — the review tells us where to look hardest.
Our P402 surveyor inspects every accessible area — ceiling voids, risers, plant rooms, floor coverings, insulation, textured coatings and more. Suspect materials are sampled under controlled conditions (dampened, sealed, labelled) or presumed positive where sampling would create risk. For Refurbishment & Demolition surveys we open up the building fabric within the work area to find hidden materials before your contractors do.
🕐 Typically 2–6 hours on siteSamples go to an independent accredited laboratory (ISO 17025) for polarised light microscopy. This confirms not just presence but asbestos type — chrysotile, amosite or crocidolite — which directly affects the risk level and your management options.
Your report includes: a full Asbestos Register with locations, photographs, material and priority risk scores; lab certificates; a building plan marked with every ACM; and our management recommendations — what to remove, what to encapsulate, what to safely leave, and the budget implications of each route.
📄 Delivered within 48 hours of lab resultsCAR 2012 requires known ACMs to be monitored. We schedule annual re-inspections, update your register and management plan, and remain available year-round for contractor queries — so your duty to manage is met continuously, not just on survey day.
Everything an insurer, lender, contractor or HSE inspector could ask for — in one document you can actually use.
Every ACM located, photographed, typed and risk-scored — the legally required record at the heart of your duty to manage.
Independent analysis certificates for every sample — accepted by insurers, lenders, local authorities and the HSE.
Floor plans showing the exact location of every ACM, so contractors know precisely where they can and cannot work.
Material and priority assessments to HSG264 methodology, showing which items need action and which need monitoring.
Remove, encapsulate or manage in place — costed options for each material and a realistic long-term budget forecast.
A clear monitoring calendar so your register stays current and your legal duty is continuously met.
Routine compliance for occupied pre-2000 buildings. Locates ACMs that could be disturbed in normal use.
Legally required before any building works. Intrusive — finds ACMs hidden within the fabric of the work area.
Condition monitoring of known ACMs with register and management plan updates. The ongoing legal duty.
Formal certification of your property's asbestos status for insurers, lenders and local authorities.
Over 5,000 people die from asbestos-related disease every year in the UK — more than road accidents. Any building constructed before 2000 may contain it, and disturbing it without a survey is a criminal offence under CAR 2012, carrying unlimited fines and imprisonment.
Free quote within 2 hours. independent accredited analysis. Report, register and management plan within 48 hours of lab results.